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Maleise Mahathir wordt oudste premier ter wereld

May 10, 2018 - Voormalig leider van Maleisië Mahathir Mohamad wordt met 92 jaar de oudste gekozen leider ter wereld, na een verrassende overwinning in een bittere verkiezingsstrijd.

The former PM came out of retirement and defected to the opposition to take on his one-time protégé Najib Razak, beset by corruption allegations.

The election marks the first time Mr Najib’s United Malays National
Organisation (Umno) party and its allies have lost an election since independence in 1957.

Mahathir led the coalition as Malaysia’s prime minister for 22 years, starting in 1981. As one of the country’s most eminent leaders, he was pugnacious, uncompromising and intolerant of dissent, but turned Malaysia from a sleepy backwater into one of the world’s modern industrialised nations.

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PUBLISHED: 10/05/2018; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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